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  2. Transatlantic flight - Wikipedia

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    German airlines experimented with mail routes over the North Atlantic in the early 1930s, with flying boats and dirigibles. In August 1938 [23] a Deutsche Luft Hansa Focke-Wulf Fw 200 Condor long-range airliner flew non-stop from [24] Berlin to New York and returned non-stop as a proving flight for the development of passenger-carrying services.

  3. Curtiss NC-4 - Wikipedia

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    Crews of the NC-4, NC-3 and NC-1 immediately before the departure of the first transatlantic flight. The U.S. Navy's transatlantic flight expedition began on 8 May 1919. The NC-4 started out in the company of two other Curtiss NCs, the NC-1 and the NC-3 (with the NC-2 having been cannibalized for spare parts to repair the NC-1 before this group of planes had even left New York City).

  4. Curtiss NC - Wikipedia

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    The Curtiss NC (Curtiss Navy Curtiss, nicknamed "Nancy boat" or "Nancy") is a flying boat built by Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor Company and used by the United States Navy from 1918 through the early 1920s. Ten of these aircraft were built, the most famous of which is the NC-4, the first airplane to make a transatlantic flight.

  5. British Airways Flight 268 - Wikipedia

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    Air traffic control expected the plane to return to the airport and deleted its flight plan. [citation needed] However, after consulting with the airline dispatcher, the pilots decided to set off on their flight plan "and get as far as we can" rather than dump 70 tonnes of fuel and land. The 747 is certified to fly on three engines.

  6. Boeing 314 Clipper - Wikipedia

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    The Boeing 314 Clipper was an American long-range flying boat produced by Boeing from 1938 to 1941. One of the largest aircraft of its time, it had the range to cross the Atlantic and Pacific oceans.

  7. Beachgoers stunned by plane’s emergency landing in ocean - AOL

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    Florida beachgoers got a real shock when a World War II-era plane was forced to make an emergency landing in the Atlantic Ocean on April 17. Fortunately, no one was injured and the unidentified ...

  8. Air Transat Flight 236 - Wikipedia

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    Air Transat Flight 236 was a transatlantic flight bound for Lisbon, Portugal, from Toronto, Canada, that lost all engine power while flying over the Atlantic Ocean on August 24, 2001. The Airbus A330 ran out of fuel because of a fuel leak caused by improper maintenance.

  9. Spirit of St. Louis - Wikipedia

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    The Spirit of St. Louis (formally the Ryan NYP, registration: N-X-211) is the custom-built, single-engine, single-seat, high-wing monoplane that Charles Lindbergh flew on May 20–21, 1927, on the first solo nonstop transatlantic flight from Long Island, New York, to Paris, France, for which Lindbergh won the $25,000 Orteig Prize.